The Johnson family will sport their finest Wakandan garb on this year’s Halloween episode of black-ish. ABC revealed photos and video from the set with the cast dressed up as different members of Marvel’s Black Panther. Tracee Ellis Ross channels Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia from the end of the film (when Wakanda’s War Dog must suit up in Dora Milaje armor to save her king and country), Anthony Anderson rocks the royal look of Chadwick Boseman’s King T’Challa, and Marcus Scribner serves Michael B.
Sun's out, fun's out! EW's 2022 Summer Preview has dozens of exclusive looks at the most anticipated TV shows, movies, books, and music of entertainment's hottest season. Continue to visit ew.com throughout the week for more previews of what you'll be watching, reading, and listening to in the months to come. You've seen Andre Johnson Jr., a.k.a. Junior (Marcus Scribner), grow up over the years on Black-ish, but get ready to see a whole lot more of him now that he's heading to college on Grown-ish.
Blindspot really left us hanging a few weeks back when the show went off the air just as Nas was being attacked by a Sandstorm operative and choked by an assailant in the backseat of her car. Things weren’t looking good for the former NSA employee. “Evil Did I Dwell, Lewd Did I Live” makes the smart choice and immediately jumps right back into that car, showing Nas fighting off her attacker, smashing his head through a window, and ultimately shooting him in order to get away.
Last week’s Blindspot ended with Weller once again confronting Jane about her propensity for lying. This time though it seemed like something might actually come of it. At the top of this week’s episode, Jane is still trying to lie her way out of the confrontation. Weller’s having none of it though. He knows Jane isn’t being truthful, and he wants to know why. They don’t get very far into that conversation before there’s a knock on the door.
Turns out, Tom DeLonge was right about aliens all along. At every Blink-182 concert on their current reunion tour, Mark Hoppus announces to the crowd that "Tom was right" before the rock band launches into their 1999 hit song "Aliens Exist." Fans dressed up in green jumpsuits and alien masks run around and crowd surf while inflatable little green men are chaotically thrown around. It's a massive celebration of singer/guitarist DeLonge's lifelong dedication to exploring the existence of extraterrestrials — and now the government has validated him as well.
First the commercial question. Midnight Oil had an unexpected hit in 1988 with ”Beds Are Burning,” a song from their last album that proposed that Ayers Rock, a sacred site in their native Australia, be given back to the aborigines. They’ll always be an impressive band, because of their blistering music, their political conviction, and even their look: Lead singer Peter Garrett (an ex-lawyer who once ran for the Australian Senate) is bald, gaunt, and gigantically tall.
Another holdout from the20th Century Fox era is officially closing its doors. The Walt Disney Co. made the decision to shut down Blue Sky Studios, the home of movies like Ice Age, Rio, Ferdinand, and most recently Spies in Disguise. The studio produced 13 films total since Fox bought it in 1999. The move is a result of Disney's losses due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, EW has learned. Sustaining a third feature animation studio on top of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation was no longer viable given economic losses, not just on the studio side and lack of major box office revenue, but from theme park closures and cruise line shutdowns.
Dave Mirra, the BMX champ and former host of MTV’s Real World/Road Rules Challenge, has died of an apparent suicide, police in Greenville North Carolina said in a statement. He was 41 years old. Mirra won 24 X Games medals — the most ever for any competitor until skateboarder Bob Burnquist passed him in 2013. He nabbed the first of his 14 gold medals in 1996 and his final one in 2005.
Like many a small town gay with a love of theatricality and and just putting on a show, I looked forward to the Tonys broadcast on CBS as the closest proximity I could get to Broadway. At the 1999 awards, Fosse, a tribute to the late choreographer and director Bob Fosse, was up for eight Tonys, including Best Musical. As was custom on the Tonys, and why we all tune in, each Best Musical nominee was given some time to show the gay kids at home, and potential visitors to the Great White Way, what all the fuss was about.
“Best Burger” takes a while to get going, but Bob’s Burgers has a way of spinning hay into gold. It’s such a clearly constructed show that you can always count on the climax to pay off whatever comes before, even if that whatever is light on laughs and plot. In this case, there’s the added tension of a countdown clock. Bob has 20 minutes to make a burger for a food festival competition.